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Prof. dr. B.M. (Birgit) Kaiser

Professor 
Humanities
Institute for Cultural Inquiry
Modern and Contemporary Literature
Modern and Contemporary Literature
 
Humanities
Department of Languages, Literature and Communication
Comparative Literature
Comparative Literature
Transcomplex
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Kamer 2.20
3512 JK Utrecht

Prof. dr. B.M. (Birgit) Kaiser

Professor
Modern and Contemporary Literature
Comparative Literature
+31 30 253 8246
b.m.kaiser@uu.nl
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Areas of expertise
Research areas

Publications

2025

Scholarly publications

Kaiser, B., Thiele, K., Jansen, E., Paterino, A., Avelino, F., & Wijsman, K. (2025). Power and Polycrisis: On the Durability of Capitalism-Patriarchy-Colonialism. Journal of Political Power. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/2158379X.2025.2453234

2024

Scholarly publications

Kaiser, B. (2024). Hélène Cixous's Poetic's of Voice: Echo - Subjectivity - Diffraction. Bloomsbury Academic. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350404748
https://research-portal.uu.nl/ws/files/252471983/b-9781350404748.pdf
Kaiser, B. (2024). Quicksand, Lispector, and the Volatile Matters of Literary Materialism. In K. Merten, & K. Howaldt (Eds.), New Materialist Literary Theory: Critical Conceptions of Literature for the Anthropocene (pp. 79-96). Rowman & Littlefield.

2022

Scholarly publications

Kaiser, B., Thiele, K., & O'Leary, T. (2022). Introduction. In K. Thiele, B. M. Kaiser, & T. O'Leary (Eds.), Ends of Critique: Methods, Institutions, Politics (pp. 1-16). (New Critical Humanities). Rowman & Littlefield.
Kaiser, B. (2022). The ends of critical intimacy: Spivak, Fanon, and Appropriative Reading. In B. Kaiser, K. Thiele, & T. O'Leary (Eds.), The Ends of Critique: Methods, Institutions, Politics (pp. 117-138). RLI.
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/420224/The_Ends_of_Critique_Methods_Institutions_Politics_Chapter_6_The_Ends_of_Critical_Intimacy_Spivak_Fanon_and_Appropriative..._.pdf?sequence=1
Thiele, K. C., Kaiser, B. M., & O'Leary, T. (Eds.) (2022). The Ends of Critique: Methods, Institutions, Politics. (New Critical Humanities). Rowman & Littlefield. http://rowman.com/webdocs/TheEndsofCritiquePDF.pdf

2021

Scholarly publications

Kaiser, B. (2021). Areia movediça. Revista Rosa, 3(3).
Kaiser, B. (2021). On the Politics of Diffractive Reading. In K. Merten (Ed.), Diffractive Reading: New Materialism, Theory and Critique (pp. 31-50). RLI.
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/420223/Diffractive_Reading_New_Materialism_Theory_Critiqu..._Chapter_2_On_the_Politics_of_Diffractive_Reading_.pdf?sequence=1

Professional publications

Thiele, K., Kaiser, B., Bolte, R., & Cuntz, M. (2021). Zwillingsträumer revisited. Über die Moderne(n) hinausträumen. In M. Bengert, J. Dünne, & M. Walther (Eds.), Zukunft, gefaltet: Choreographien des Als-Ob (pp. 233-256). nocturne. https://nocturne-plattform.de/publikation/zukunft-gefaltet
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/420283/Faltungen_8_Zwillingstra_umer_revisited_U_ber_die_Moderne_n_hinaustra_umen_Cuntz_Kaiser_Thiele_Bolte_232_256.pdf?sequence=1
Thiele, K., Kaiser, B., Bialas, D., & Bolte, R. (2021). Leichenschau? Bio- und Thanatopolitiken exquisiter Kadaver. In M. Bengert, J. Dünne, & M. Walther (Eds.), Zukunft, gefaltet: Choreographien des Als-Ob (pp. 93-118). nocturne. https://nocturne-plattform.de/publikation/zukunft-gefaltet
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/420282/Faltungen_3_Leichenschau_Bio_und_Thanatopolitiken_exquisiter_Kadaver_Bialas_Bolte_Kaiser_Thiele_92_119.pdf?sequence=1
Thiele, K., Kaiser, B., Bialas, D., & Egert, G. (2021). Brief ins Jahr 2070: Sorge in kollektiven Gefügen. In M. Bengert, J. Dünne, & M. Walther (Eds.), Zukunft, gefaltet: Choreographien des Als-Ob (pp. 21-50). nocturne. https://nocturne-plattform.de/publikation/zukunft-gefaltet
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/420281/Faltungen_1_Brief_ins_Jahr_2070_Sorge_in_kollektiven_Gefu_gen_Kaiser_Thiele_Egert_Bialas_1_51.pdf?sequence=1

2020

Scholarly publications

Kaiser, B. (2020). Poetics. In H. Hix (Ed.), Counterclaims: Poets and Poetries, Talking Back (pp. 41-42). Dalkey Archive Press.
Kaiser, B. (2020). Teaching Comparative Literature in English(es): Decolonizing Pedagogy in the Multilingual Classroom. Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry, 7(3), 297-306. https://doi.org/10.1017/pli.2020.7
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/411821/teaching_comparative_literature_in_englishes_decolonizing_pedagogy_in_the_multilingual_classroom.pdf?sequence=1
Kaiser, B., & Thiele, K. (2020). Forms of Critique, Modes of Combat. In S. Khatib, H. Kuhn, O. Lochner , I. Mehl , & B. Söntgen (Eds.), Critique : The Stakes of Form (pp. 95-116). The University of Chicago Press.

2018

Scholarly publications

Thiele, K. C., & Kaiser, B. M. (2018). Preface. In B. Kaiser, & K. Thiele (Eds.), Diffracted Worlds - Diffractive Readings: Onto-Epistemologies and the Critical Humanities (pp. xi-xvi). Routledge.
Thiele, K. C., & Kaiser, B. M. (2018). Introduction – Diffraction: Onto-Epistemology, Quantum Physics and the Critical Humanities: Republished Introduction from Parallax Special Issue "Diffracted Worlds - Diffractive Readings" (Parallax, 20.3 2014). In Diffracted Worlds - Diffractive Readings: Onto-Epistemologies and the Critical Humanities (pp. 1-3). Routledge.
Kaiser, B. M., & Thiele, K. C. (Eds.) (2018). Diffracted Worlds - Diffractive Readings: Onto-Epistemologies and the Critical Humanities. Routledge.
Thiele, K. C., & Kaiser, B. M. (2018). Returning (to) the Question of the Human: An Introduction. philoSOPHIA, 8(1), 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1353/phi.2018.0000
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/373571/kaiser.pdf?sequence=1
Kaiser, B. M. (2018). So Many Tongues: Cixous and the Matter of Writing. Comparative Literature, 70(3), 278-294. https://doi.org/10.1215/00104124-6991711
Kaiser, B. M., & Thiele, K. C. (2018). If you do well, carry! The difference of the humane: An Interview with Bracha L. Ettinger by Birgit M. Kaiser and Kathrin Thiele. philoSOPHIA, 8(1), 101-125. https://doi.org/10.1353/phi.2018.0005
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/373569/project_muse_694764.pdf?sequence=1
Kaiser, B. M., & Thiele, K. C. (2018). Terrestrial. In R. Braidotti, & M. Hlavajova (Eds.), Posthuman Glossary Bloomsbury Academic.
Thiele, K. C., & Kaiser, B. M. (Eds.) (2018). Returning (to) the Question of the Human: Special Issue for philoSOPHIA: A Journal of Continental Feminism. philoSOPHIA, 8(1), 1-125.

2017

Scholarly publications

Thiele, K. C., & Kaiser, B. M. (2017). What is Species Memory? Or, Humanism, Memory and the Afterlives of “1492”’. Parallax, 23(4), 403-415. https://doi.org/10.1080/13534645.2017.1374510
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/359695/What_is_Species_Memory_Or_Humanism_Memory_and_the_Afterlives_of_1492.pdf?sequence=1
Thiele, K. C., & Kaiser, B. M. (2017). Terra. In M. Bunz, B. M. Kaiser, & K. Thiele (Eds.), Symptoms of the Planetary Condition: A Critical Vocabulary (pp. 205-210). Meson Press.
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/357812/terra.pdf?sequence=1
Kaiser, B. M. (2017). The Laugh of the Medusa. In B. Papenburg (Ed.), Gender: Laughter (pp. 149-163). Palgrave Macmillan. https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/CX3648400022/GPS?u=utrecht&sid=bookmark-GPS&xid=77e937bd
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/380600/The_Laugh_of_the_Medusa_1_.PDF?sequence=2
Thiele, K. C., Kaiser, B. M., & Bunz, M. (Eds.) (2017). Symptoms of the Planetary Condition: A Critical Vocabulary. Meson Press. http://meson.press/books/symptoms-of-the-planetary-condition/
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/350867/symptoms.pdf?sequence=1

2016

Scholarly publications

Kaiser, B. M. (2016). Vergelijkende literatuurwetenschap in de 21e eeuw: belangen, uitdagingen, nieuwe benaderingen. Vooys, 34(1/2), 8-20.
Terra Critica (2016). Introduction: Symptoms of the Planetary Condition. In M. Bunz, B. M. Kaiser, & K. Thiele (Eds.), Symptoms of the Planetary Condition (pp. 7-17). Meson Press.
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/345688/Planetary.pdf?sequence=1
Kaiser, B. M. (2016). Symptomatology. In Symptoms of the Planetary Condition (pp. 185-190). Meson Press.
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/345687/Symptomatology.pdf?sequence=1
Kaiser, B. M. (2016). Singularization. In Symptoms of the Planetary Condition (pp. 155-161). Meson Press.
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/345686/Singularization.pdf?sequence=1
Kaiser, B. M. (2016). Semi-Agency. In Symptoms of the Planetary Condition: A Critical Vocabulary (pp. 143-148). Meson Press. https://doi.org/10.14619/018
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/345685/Semi_Agency.pdf?sequence=1
Kaiser, B., & Thiele, K. (2016). Other Headings: Ben Jelloun, Derrida, Sansal and the Critique of Europe. Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, 18(2), 270-285. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369801X.2015.1106965
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/351312/Other.pdf?sequence=1

2015

Scholarly publications

Kaiser, B. M. (2015). Algerian Disorders: On Deconstructive Postcolonialism in Cixous and Derrida. Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry, 2(2), 191-211. https://doi.org/10.1017/pli.2015.16
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/380601/algerian_disorders_on_deconstructive_postcolonialism_in_cixous_and_derrida.pdf?sequence=1
Kaiser, B. (2015). Singularity and Transnational Poetics. In B. Kaiser (Ed.), Singularity and Transnational Poetics (pp. 3-24). Routledge.
Kaiser, B. (2015). The spaces of transnational literature; or, where on earth are we with Emine Sevgi Özdamar’s Der Hof im Spiegel? In T. D'haen, & C. Dominguez (Eds.), Cosmopolitanism and the Postcolonial: Literature and the New Europe (pp. 177-198). Rodopi.
Kaiser, B. (2015). Nomadisch Schrijven: Gilles Deleuze en Édouard Glissant over Wortels en Fabuleren. In J. Goud (Ed.), Ontworteld: de schrijver als nomade (pp. 31-46). Klement.
Kaiser, B. (2015). Singularity and Transnational Poetics. Routledge. http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9781138775787/

Other output

Kaiser, B. M., & Thiele, K. C. (2015). What is Critique in the 21st Century? Discussing Terra Critica: A Conversation between Birgit Mara Kaiser, Kathrin Thiele and Mercedes Bunz. Web publication/site, .

2014

Scholarly publications

Thiele, K., & Kaiser, B. (2014). Diffracted Worlds - Diffractive Readings: Onto-Epistemologies and the Critical Humanities. Parallax, 72(3), 165-287. http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/tpar20/20/3#.VM4GRCfo-8w
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/380668/Diffraction_Onto_Epistemology_Quantum_Physics_and_the_Critical_Humanities.pdf?sequence=1
Kaiser, B. (2014). Literatuur en leven - compositie en affect bij Deleuze. Wijsgerig Perspectief, 54(2), 23-29.
Kaiser, B. M. (2014). Worlding CompLit: Diffractive Reading with Barad, Glissant and Nancy. Parallax, 20(3), 274-287. https://doi.org/10.1080/13534645.2014.927634
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/307641/kaiser_worlding_2014.pdf?sequence=3
Kaiser, B. M. (2014). A New German, singularly Turkish. Reading Emine Sevgi Özdamar with Derrida's 'Monolingualism of the Other'. Textual Practice, 28(6), 969-987. https://doi.org/10.1080/0950236X.2014.925492
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/307580/kaiser_newgerman_2014.pdf?sequence=3
Kaiser, B. M., & Thiele, K. C. (2014). Diffraction: Onto-epistemology, Quantum Physics and the Critical Humanities. Parallax, 20(3), 165-167. https://doi.org/10.1080/13534645.2014.927621
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/307618/kaiser_diffraction_2014.pdf?sequence=4

Popularising publications

Kaiser, B. M., & Thiele, K. C. (2014). Weaving Ourselves Otherwise – Co-emerging with Others in the Matrixial. In B. Choi, & M. Tanaka (Eds.), Grand Domestic Revolution: Handbook (pp. 93-94). Casco.

2013

Scholarly publications

Kaiser, B. M. (2013). (Un)Grounding the human. Affective Entanglement and Subjectivity in Hélène Cixous "Algerian Reveries. International Journal of Francophone Studies, 15(3&4), 477-496. https://doi.org/10.1386/ijfs.15.3-4.477_1
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/380667/ungrounding.pdf?sequence=1
Kaiser, B. M. (2013). Zintuiglijk denken en het vraagstuk van de esthetica. In S. van Keulen (Ed.), Hoe kunst en filosofie werken (pp. 117-131). Boom Uitgevers.
Kaiser, B. M. (2013). Electrified Humans; or of inhuman affect in Heinrich von Kleist. In S. Blackmore (Ed.), Discovering the Human: Life Sciences and the Arts in Eighteenth and early Nineteenth Century (pp. 171-186). Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht.
Kaiser, B. M. (2013). Metamorphosis. In E. Horn, & M. Lowrie (Eds.), Denkfiguren/Figures of Thought (pp. 115-117). August Verlag.
Kaiser, B. M. (2013). Happy Days: Lebenswissen nach Cavell. Arcadia, 47. https://doi.org/10.1515/arcadia-2012-003

2012

Scholarly publications

Kaiser, B. M., & Burns, L. (2012). Navigating Differential Futures; (Un)making Colonial Pasts. In Burns, Lorna, & Kaiser, Birgit (Eds.), Postcolonial Literatures and Deleuze: Colonial Pasts, Differential Futures (pp. 1-17). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137030801_1
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/380663/Navigating_Differential_Futures.pdf?sequence=1
Kaiser, B. M. (2012). Lektürelektionen. Haitianische Untertöne in Kleists 'Die Verlobung in St. Domingo' und Melvilles 'Benito Cereno’. In R. Blänkner (Ed.), Heinrich von Kleists Novelle 'Die Verlobung in St. Domingo'. Literatur und Politik im globalen Kontext um 1800 (pp. 73-91). Königshausen & Neumann.
Thiele, K., & Kaiser, B. M. (2012). Sich verlieren – und plötzlich eine Welt finden. Bracha L. Ettinger im Gespräch mit Birgit M. Kaiser and Kathrin Thiele. In S. Leeb (Ed.), Materialität der Diagramme. Kunst und Theorie (pp. 231-262). (polypen). b_books.
Kaiser, B. M., & Burns, L. (2012). Postcolonial Literatures and Deleuze: Colonial Pasts, Differential Futures. Palgrave Macmillan. http://www.palgrave.com/page/detail/postcolonial-literatures-and-deleuze-lorna-burns/?K=9780230348257
Kaiser, B. M. (2012). Poésie en étendue. Deleuze, Glissant, and a post-postcolonial aesthetics of the earth. In Braidotti, Rosi, & Pisters, Patricia (Eds.), Revisiting Normativity with Deleuze (pp. 131-144). Continuum.
Kaiser, B. M. (2012). The Singularity of Postcolonial Literature. Preindividual (hi)stories in Mohammed Dib’s “Northern Trilogy". In Postcolonial Literatures and Deleuze: Colonial Pasts, Differential Futures (pp. 123-144). Palgrave Macmillan.

2011

Scholarly publications

Kaiser, B. M. (2011). On aesthetics, aisthetics and sensation – reading Baumgarten with Leibniz with Deleuze’. Web publication/site
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/205637/Esthetica_-_On_aesthetics_aisthetics_and_sensation_reading_Baumgarten_with_Leibniz_with_Deleuze_-_2011-03-29%255B1%255D.pdf?sequence=1
Kaiser, B. M. (2011). Theory today; or, how are we to read this? Frame: Tijdschrift voor Literatuurwetenschap, 24(1), 8-17.

Popularising publications

Kaiser, B. M. (2011). Baarmoederlijke verbondenheid uit Tel-Aviv. Lover: Feminisme, Cultuur, Wetenschap, 38(voorjaar), 48-49.
Kaiser, B. M. (2011). Vechtend Denken. Lover: Feminisme, Cultuur, Wetenschap, 38(najaar), 48-49.
Kaiser, B. M. (2011). Meedenken voor een feminine toekomst. Lover: Feminisme, Cultuur, Wetenschap, 38(zomer), 48-49.

2010

Scholarly publications

Kaiser, B. M. (2010). Literatur und Biopolitik. Rationalisierungen des Lebens in der Romantik. In Maria Muhle / Kathrin Thiele (Ed.), Biopolitische Konstellationen (pp. 119-142). August Verlag.
Kaiser, B. M. (2010). Figures of Simplicity. Sensation and Thinking in Kleist and Melville. (Intersections: Philosophy and Critical Theory ed.) Suny Press. http://www.sunypress.edu/p-5031-figures-of-simplicity.aspx

Other output

Kaiser, B. M. (2010, Nov 12). Response to Bracha L. Ettinger.
Kaiser, B. M. (2010, Sept 15). Response to Paul Gilroy.
Kaiser, B. M. (2010, Oct 24). Response to Claire Colebrook.

2009

Scholarly publications

Kaiser, B. M. (2009). The Reception of Ossian in Europe. Arcadia, 44, 452-456.
Kaiser, B. M. (2009). Two floors of thinking: Deleuze's Aesthetics of Folds. In S. van Tuinen, & N. McDonnell (Eds.), Deleuze and the fold: a critical reader (pp. 203-224). Palgrave Macmillan.

2008

Other output

Kaiser, B. M. (2008). In Defense of Life? Poetic Resistance in Romanticism. Paper presented at lecture at symposium 'Biopolitical Constellations', Bauhaus-University Weimar, German.

2007

Scholarly publications

Kaiser, B. M. (2007). Falte. In S. Diekmann, & T. Khurana (Eds.), Latenz. 40 Annäherungen an einen Begriff (pp. 67-72). Kadmos.

2001

Scholarly publications

Kaiser, B. M. (2001). Exclusivist Rhetorics – the constitution of political identities in present-day Algeria. In G. Schlee (Ed.), Imagined Differences. Hatred and the construction of social identities (pp. 183-214). (Market, Culture and Society). LITVerlag.

1999

Scholarly publications

Kaiser, B. M. (1999). Algerische Identitätspolitiken: Islamistische Diskurse zwischen Authentizität und (Post)Moderne. In J. Angermüller / M. Nonhoff (Ed.), PostModerne Diskurse zwischen Sprache und Macht (pp. 69-79). (Argument Sonderband). Argument-Verlag.
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